Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan discusses the dangers of protest speech and harmful speech.
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good morning gentlemen we're on our 69th segment of the think before you speak series the laws of shame with clarity and a few stories and our children that pace with her in the fire roach hashem began these are dedicated for all those in cloud israel who need refuge lima these are dedicated for our benefit all the yeshua that they need and these allah specifically dedicated for the yeshua agola the shmira aliyah the hats okay today the alahot titled the protest now i don't know if you remember this but over the years there were different times in school that the yeshiva came up and decided to that the yeshiva came up and decided to either give school on certain holidays where other schools did not have school on those holidays you remember those days and right away as a kid especially in high school you said to yourself oh my gosh i cannot believe it everybody else has off except for my yeshiva right and you think to yourself this is ridiculous we're going to protest there's always one kid we're going to protest we're going to go to the principal's office we're going to set up a protest outside his door and we're a protest outside his door and we're going to picket his office until he lets us off like every other yeshiva you show me one time those protests got anywhere but but in the mind of a kid especially a teenager what do you mean it's not right so i want you to picture this here you are with all your friends everyone riled each other up and now they're marching down the hallway and they're already yelling and screaming
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- 0:00good morning gentlemen we're on our 69th segment of the think before you speak series the…
- 0:33all the yeshua that they need and these allah specifically dedicated for the yeshua agola the…
- 1:05that the yeshiva came up and decided to either give school on certain holidays where other…
- 2:06they're already yelling and screaming getting each other going so like this everyone is really nice…
- 2:36why do we have school tomorrow it's crazy it's a legal holiday what's going on and…
- 3:38jumps in and says ha you hear this you heard what the principle said haim is…
- 4:08principal what haim said about the school and the principal for giving school tomorrow and now…
- 4:40that's not rikhilut because hey i mean he's also complaining the answer is no that regilut…
- 5:41because you set it in front of haim's face it sounds more convincing and more truthful…
- 6:13how embarrassed will hayan be when you just gave him up in front of the principal…
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